Study title

The family situation in long-term marital relationships. Topics: significance of religion and religiousness; most frequent leisure partner; arrangement of financial relationships between partners; general judgement on partner relation (scale); problems and difficulties in marriage; factors influencing a good partner relation (scale); general judgement on marriages and non-marital partner relations in one´s own circle of friends; strength of ties with previous partnerships and possible problems in separation; general as well as personal advantages and disadvantages of a non-marital long-term relationship and of marriage (scale); children from personal earlier partnership relations or from marriage; intra-family division of household activities and decision-making responsibilities. Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children; ages of children (classified); religious denomination; school education; occupational position; employment in the civil service; employment; income; household income; size of household; respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of household; respondent is person managing household; number of persons in household with their own income; residential status; having a yard; smoker; trips by airplane; unemployment; possession of a telephone; leisure activities; possession of videorecorder; possession of means of transportation; possession of credit card or check card; possession of a building loan contract. Interviewer rating: city size; state. Also encoded was: ZIP (postal) code.